Dr Christian Haddad is an Affiliated Researcher and Visiting Lecturer (Global Health Security) at the Department of IR.
Currently, Christian is a University Assistant at the Dept. of Science & Technology Studies at the University of Vienna and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Health Policy, School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.
Previously, Christian was a senior research fellow at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip) where he headed the research area Global Politics of Innovation.
Christian’s research and teaching expertise include the global governance of public health crises, the biopolitics of security and the global political economies of science, technology and innovation. Throughout animated by a strong committment to critical social and political theory, his research has explored these topics empirically in various policy fields, including pharmaceutical innovation, cybersecurity, renewable energy transitions, pandemic preparedness and antimicrobial resistance.
Recent publications (selection):
Haddad, C., Vorlíček, D. and Nina Klimburg-Witjes, N. (2024). The Security-Innovation Nexus in (Geo-) Political Imagination. Geopolitics: 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2329940
Haddad, C (2023). A remedy for European preparedness deficits? Deepening pharmaceuticalized security logics through the EU Health Union. In Klimburg-Witjes, N., & Trauttmansdorff, P. (Eds.). Technopolitics and the Making of Europe (pp. 141-161). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003267409-11
Jeleff, M., Haddad, C., & Kutalek, R. (2023). Between superimposition and local initiatives: Making sense of ‘implementation gaps’ as a governance problem of antimicrobial resistance. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 4, 100332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100332
Haddad, C., Günay, C., Gharib, S., & Komendantova, N. (2022). Imagined inclusions into a ‘green modernisation’: local politics and global visions of Morocco’s renewable energy transition. Third World Quarterly, 43(2), 393-413.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.2014315